I was a decade past my prime when I whooped you so, doesn’t seem to make much difference.
So, it’s cool to you to lose AGAIN? Weak.
Game’s been over for years now. Time to start a new one. But then, I suppose you’ve gone as far as you can go seeing as you had the best comp to practice with, lol.
If I decide to play on point again, I’ll need a Sim or 2 to test. Sup hater? I’ll put you at 5th level test(of 10). Of course I’ll be betting to encourage my interest.
I’ll holla and see if you’re around in 5-6 months.
You might wanna try playing both days this year if you show up, lol.
Rumar has it that ST will be left to cigarbob so he can run the arcade version on his cab. However he only plans to run a team tournament. This is from the ‘ST on PS1’ thread in evo forum
Lovely. Team tourneys are more for fun than straight comp. If there’s only one tourney and it’s a team one, count me out. Fuckin’ lame. Like Evo needs ANOTHER casual feeling tourney.
I sincerely hope that Niel plans on running a real tourney or two. Then again, the competitive attitude of the SF scene is all but gone so, I won’t hold my breath.
That means A3 is probably team too?
Why bother playing serious again when the competitions aren’t going to be serious. Hell, even on a cabinet it’s going weak. I remember when players would stand on their own(aside from Schaefer and Watson leading the piggyback brigade years ago).
I’ll just remain cynical.
No offense to Neil but, is anyone concerned with how NOT serious SF has become? As gaming continues it’s rise in mainstream media, sf stands out less and less because it’s acting like a casual gaming scene. Fuck all the pussies that added and intend to add to this. No wonder the majority of serious players couldn’t care less these days. The worse part is that ppl don’t say shit as more and more folks poop on the legacy.
SF is looking like Tyson’s career. All I can say is that I said this shiet would be like this years ago and now it’s getting stupider than even I thought.
I already addressed the concerns of team tourney vs singles, which mirrors your sentiment, however there are other factors involved, if you feel so strongly about this, you only have ~8 months to attempt to be useful instead of just posting your usual nonsense about whatever you think is serious. Lets just stop this before it starts… again.
Should’ve stopped before you started. “Being useful” is as subjective as anything I’ve said so, quit trying to play smart. It doesn’t matter how strongly I feel if I can’t rent out a hall, dork. You act as if everyone that’s done commentary on our times is useless because they merely talk about it. I was showing up to and running local tourneys longer than most have been playing. I’ve helped ppl learn SF directly as well as in text and I don’t spout nonsense, constantly, in some pathetic attempt to be funny. Go do some stand-up if you’re THAT inclined.
At least don’t make some moronic type of post that is JUST LIKE what I’ve seen you flame others for. If you don’t like what I have to say, don’t read. Simple as that. And PLEASE don’t act as if any of my sentiments are mirrored by your own because if they actually were, you’d be glad someone else was repping your ideas. Instead, you’d rather be counter-productive and insult someone who “mirrors your sentiments.”
I’ll be useful and play again seriously when tourneys get serious. I’ll contribute to the winnings and the outcome as well as to the overall feeling of competition. What will you contribute? Hell, it would be luck to see you show up once in a decade.
Just close your ass and shut up like the sidebuster you are until you can comprehend the usefulness of expressing ones’ self through text. The scene, as it is now, isn’t worth much more. But you wouldn’t know because you weren’t around when it was serious and MANY, it seems, that make decisions now were sitting on the sidelines when SF was as it should be just LIKE you. No wonder you feel liberal enough to open your ass needlessly.
I may shut up soon. But take that as a queue that everything that made SF special is DEAD. Allow me to pretend it isn’t just yet. In fact, if you have something you want to say to me, pm me. Hell, I’ll get on irc for you if you have anything worthwhile to contribute but, unlike myself, all I seem to see from you is poo spewing from an oriface that looks like a mouth.
I’m sorry but I’m not down for the SF scene to be a place for homos like you to hook up. I know we disagree but leave it at that.
I’m sick of all the old-school hate on new school Super Turbo, why the hell would anyone be mad that people are picking up the game after over 10+ years of release? More power to the new school. To losely quote spinal tap The scene isn’t dead, it’s just becoming more selective. Since when was Street Fighter underground anyways? There will always be the so-called pros, elites, purists and “hardcore” fans, but there was always a casual scene since the day Street Fighter 2 hit the snes, so everyone please stop acting like this is something new. True, the switch from arcade hardware to consoles is very very poor, but if it increases the pool of competition in a quickly evaporating scene, then there isn’t a thing to BITCH about. Old school players made the scene, but please don’t destroy and retard it with a jaded outlook.
I hope you didn’t get any of that from my posts. I have ZERO hate for new school. In fact, my post had zero to do with ol skool aside from asking ol skool players if they were leaving it up to the new school to take the ol skool games back from the Japanese in tourney.
As for shit having been changed for the worse, you can’t have been around or it would be clear. Console may have increased entry for some tourneys while completely eliminating the possibility for others but, don’t think my problem is with consoles. My problem is with separate decisions that have led to the “quickly evaporating scene” by taking all of the pride and, essentially, the heart of the competition away. You can start the timeline from B5 where 3s was ommitted(admittedly, I didn’t contest that then) or at Evo2k2 where A3 and 3s were ommitted as full tourneys. You can take that all the way up through Apex and playing on the floor at what was supposed to be the mother of all serious tourneys. It would take days to draw you a map whereas you could probably search cached srk pages for the complaints as they happened as well as myself outlining that things would be JUST like they are but that it would be hard to spot since some try to equate the THEN SF scene with todays’s fighting game scene. Folks don’t like to be real and compare the sf scene to the sf scene.
Dude, I wouldn’t try to ruin what you have here. I’d just leave. As is, I’m back around to see if anyone cares enough to make the scene as great as it was. Of course, folks would rather blame capcom for not making any new great games but that’s the problematic mentality right there. We don’t even play all of the quality tourney games from capcom that are already established. Fuck the new shit. Peeps still haven’t gotten it right with the old shit yet.
k, whoops. I’d better review my shit before I post! Or would that be “review my poo?” Was that “whoops” or “woops?” Damn, gotta go bye an online dicktionary.
lol. I think most can tell you that I really suck nowadays. Still, my first game with Gian he barely won and I beat him the 2nd time I played him. Again, all while I played the worst SF that I ever have.
I don’t try to act like I don’t suck. I don’t try to act like I play.
Oh…wowzy wowzy woo woo(did I spell that right?).
But hey, please, give me incentive to play. I’m looking for it. How about sending me that vid you’re speaking of? You do have a vid, right? lol
I’m impressed you guys kept a SF scene going for as long as you all have to be honest. I live in the North of England and ours died on its arse about 10 years ago. In fact there are almost no arcades that host cabinet machines at all around this area now, the few that exist have mainly slots and hydraulics that are always fucked and not worth shit as a game to play.
At one point the town I lived in had about 10 machines seeded about it ranging from old WW to Hyper when it came out, never mind the larger cities near me which had more. Plus there was a scene to boot, people whose names you knew in the arcades or at least what character they favoured or were best with. Still, I never truly went away from playing, the arcades just left us.
The AE has got me back playing, its not arcade perfect I know but I will play it and enjoy and some of my old SF mates might even get back playing more, I know for sure one of the lads has a Hyper cab stuck in his garage perhaps we will make a few calls and talk to people I aint seen in years…thats what SF could mean to me…
Talking of which. Im struggling trying to get a Dhalsim slide cross-up out. Anyone explain how thats done or have I misunderstood the tactic ?
Problem with team tournaments is that “making friends” shouldn’t be an important tournament skill. Team tournaments are fun but that’s what they are - fun. Not serious.
You can cross up with a slide after a noogie or as air defense. A-Dhalsim explained the former in detail earlier in this thread, I think. Gist is: after a noogie grab take a fraction of a step forward then do a medium kick slide that hits them backwards. Turn it into a three hit combo with back+fierce. Dizzies. This medium kick slide trick works only on skinny characters like Chun-Li and Vega but you can do noogie -> cross-up roundhouse slide against most of the ST roster, I think. (yer fucked if that one is blocked, tho’)
For air defense you want to slide underneath them as they land. Medium slide -> headbutt works here, too. Short slide -> down-back+medium kick is easier. I think this trick works on anyone but it is easier to do against fatter characters.
But there was this guy on IRC the other day that said he owns you… he also said ST sucks and you just have to throw all day to win. He also was not Shirts for sure. His nick was different!
